Associations to the word «Atelectasis»

Wiktionary

ATELECTASIS, noun. (medicine) The collapse of a part of or the whole lung caused by inner factors rather than a pneumothorax

Dictionary definition

ATELECTASIS, noun. Collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth.

Wise words

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.